Over 300 million rural Chinese have no access to safe drinking water.

Factories, power plants, mines, fertilizers, and pesticides are all big contributors to the problem.

4.05 million hectares of land are irrigated with polluted water.

Polluted crops mean bad crop yields and unhealthy food.

73.8% of groundwater in 8 regions is polluted.

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, most of the water in the eight provinces and municipalities of Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hainan, Ningxia, and Guangdong is no longer safe for humans or fish wildlife.

In fact, most water in China is unfit for human contact.

43 per cent of the seven major river basins, 50 per cent of groundwater in cities, and 77 per cent of key lakes and reservoirs are unfit for humans.

Villages in Hebei have to dig 200 meters to find clean water.

Deep wells cost a lot more money than shallow wells. About a decade ago, residents only had to dig 20 to 30 meters deep to find clean water.

90% of grasslands have degraded.

A number of these grasslands in the north now qualify as deserts. Northern provinces are dependent on groundwater, but there is no more groundwater and the soil is completely unarable.

95.6% of China's electricity relies on having water.

Unfortunately, over 40 per cent of electricity use comes from areas with very few water resources.

China's hydro power alone could power both India and Indonesia or both Canada and Australia.

Beijing is doing its best to spend its way out of this (and other) crises